Junk food withdrawals

During February (the shortest month!) I decided to see whether I could stop eating refined/added sugar for a month, just to see what everyone had been banging on about. The first four or five days I had what I call the "hungry headache" for most of the day, even though I wasn't physically hungry. It was gone by the end of the first week. I'm back on the sugar again, albeit being a little more aware of it and therefore eating less junk, but since then I've been more aware of how bad ingesting large quantities of sugar makes me feel.

Question - are you drinking a lot of diet soft drinks? I've heard stories about people reacting negatively (headaches etc.) to artificial sweeteners when they simply substitute the diet version of a junk food product for the regular version, rather than changing the types of food they eat to less processed stuff. It's never happened to me but it's probably worth considering.

Keep up the good work and I hope the headaches go away!

How many calories are you eating each day?

What is your current weekly goal?

What is your current weight?

Would you be willing to open your food diary?

Answers to these questions will get you some better answers, but the symptoms you are describing are not good.

My guess is that you are either not eating enough or you need to go see a doctor.

Mick_Hargy19 wrote: »

Hi. I'm a month or so into mfp and everything is going great weight loss wise, I've lost 14 pounds and can already see some change in myself. One thing that's more recently started to bother me though is I've been waking up with cold sweats, headaches etc and I was wondering if it's something to do with my diet change. Has anyone else experienced this?

U need more water!